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Decentralized computing services unlocked a whole new part of the Tech sector. If you’re of the younger generation that grew up with iCloud, Dropbox and other cloud based services then like many, you’ve already had plenty of exposure to cloud resources. However it might surprise you to know that in the early days of computing and the internet, that there was also another form of decentralized computing. It was called TimeShare, and it allowed companies to access resources without having the financial penalty incurred by procuring large systems to operate in house. In today’s article, we’ll be looking back at some of those timeshare days to see how they laid down the foundations for today’s cloud based services. What the Tech is going peak 1960’s. Lets do it! The Beginning To look at the beginnings of TimeShare, we need to go back many decades to the 1960’s. With the excitement of the space race, the establishment of nuclear energy and the proliferation of television, telephones...

Replacing copper with fiber optic cable supercharged our capabilities. In our last What the Tech?! on satellite linking, while we felt we covered the brief on linking, there was some interesting statistics in regards to just how big a leap forward this was for international communications. We wanted to explore that some more as we felt it made for an interesting tale. So in today’s piece we’ll be looking at another great leap forward for communication by looking at Fiber Optic Cables. Fiber, was a much better transmission line, capable of carrying large quantities of data at speeds far superior to the copper cables of old. Explaining where Fiber fits into this journey helps understand the leap ahead these newer technologies provided. Today the world is a spaghetti of interconnected submarine cables. Source: Wikipedia The Beginning: The idea of transmission lines came far ahead of the development of fiber cables, with the first submarine cables laid in the 1850’s. These line...

The development of Transponder carrying Satellites changed the way we consumed media. While we’ve all heard of the Space Race, which included the Mercury and Apollo projects the importance of the space race for Humanity is often quite misunderstood. The successful carrying of man into space required new materials, mathematics, design and communication methods to go with the all new Saturn V rocket which was scheduled to carry man to the moon. One of the most powerful man made objects, the Saturn V was an engineering marvel in it’s own right, but today we’ll be looking at where the space race began, with man made satellites orbiting the earth. While few readers are older enough to recall the Space Race, it’s pretty commonly known that it eventuated in what was known as the Sputnik crisis, as the USSR’s Sputnik became the first man made satellite to successfully orbit the earth. This leap forward marked one of the great successes of the space race and proved the viability of receiv...